A Blocked Writer
Two stories I’m having trouble getting off the ground:
A dramatization of the James Harvey/Andy Warhol situation. James Harvey was an abstract expressionist painter who worked as a graphic designer. For his work , he designed the Brillo Box that Andy Warhol made the centerpiece of his first show and made him famous. Primarily for positing that even something like a Brillo Box could be art if displayed properly.
A theatre piece consisting of four interlocking monologues, structured as a musical fugue would be. Different voices coming in at different times, starting even with the identical words before going to different but thematically related places. This piece could be presented with multiple headphones available to audience members, thus playing with the idea of relinquishing control of audience attention in the theatre.
